Surveillance Program Deserves More Credit
* As a staunch supporter of and participant in community-based policing in the Devonshire Division and the 12th Council District, I felt outraged after reading the June 12 article, “L.A. Will Use Anti-Graffiti Surveillance Teams.”
The article stated that the video surveillance idea will be tested in three downtown divisions and implemented citywide if it succeeds.
How insulting this is for those of us who have worked diligently and been successful in implementing this very program a year and a half ago. Not only have we made arrests by working with the senior lead and reserve officers in Devonshire, but most of those arrests have led to convictions.
The volunteer surveillance team in Devonshire is an extension of the most successful community-based policing program in California and is possibly the best in the United States. Crime is down in our division by 12% because of the partnership the community has built with our Police Department and our councilman, Hal Bernson.
REBECCA LOHNES LEVEQUE
Northridge
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